Any new Mackie product equipped with premium Onyx mic pres always seems to garner a lot of attention. Not only has the Onyx pre’s pristine sound quality been universally praised by users as well as the typically stoic and notoriously neutral pro audio trade press, but the growing family of Onyx-equipped Mackie gear seems to be setting a pace that has competition scrambling to keep up.

The latest additions to Mackie's Onyx range seem no exception, each earning a nod from the Mix Foundation for excellence in Audio in the form of a TEC Award nomination. TEC Awards recognize outstanding achievement in the field of professional recording, recording technology and sound production for music, films, TV shows and live performances. In it’s history, Mackie has taken home 10 TEC Awards. Additionally, in 2004 the Mackie CR-1604 was inducted into the Technology Hall of Fame, an honor established for those products and innovations that have had an enduring impact on the development of audio technology

Note that a special TEC Awards Voter’s Guide and voting ballot will appear in the August issue of Mix magazine, with the TEC Awards ceremony to be held Saturday, October 7, at the Hilton San Francisco in tandem with the AES Convention